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...were shifted to the commerce of the street for the benefit of the Hearst International Reel Corp. . . . it is expected that the syndicate . . . will pay the fine." The fine was $5,000, imposed on Harold Elliston, onetime managing editor of the Baltimore Neivs who also faced a day in jail. Managing Editor Earl C. Deland of the Baltimore American was given a day's jailing; also City Editor Harry Clark of the News, and Photographers Sturm and Klemm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tabby Manna | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...acting of Dorothy Burgess who strives seriously to smile success through this her first musical comedy role; an excellently trained chorus; the song " 'Cross the River from Queens." The plot: a Dry millionaire soap manufacturer, arrested in a night club, switches to the Wets after a month in jail, with such success that he is elected to Congress, and his daughter and pet office girl are free to marry their respective tenors. Bide Dudley (dramatic critic of the N. Y. Evening World) and Louis Simon (actor in the play) wrote the book, worked in many a laugh, also insinuated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 24, 1927 | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

Suppose that Wisconsin decides it is time to drop Minnesota, all that will be necessary is for the Wisconsin paper to print the jail record of Joesting, Nydahl, Almquist, Hanson and Hyde. Or if the Gophers are getting tired of going to Madison the Gopher publication can print pictures of a flock of Wisconsin men pulling taffy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: As the Mid-West Sees Us | 1/18/1927 | See Source »

...Louis Glassman, perpetrator of 110 burglaries and several jail breaks, asked for a Bible in the Springfield (Ill.) jail last week. None could be found on the premises; jailers rushed to a neighbor- hood mission, satisfied the convict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Miscellaneous Mentions: Jan. 17, 1927 | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...often said that should the Savior appear before an average U. S. police judge and profess the doctrines attributed to him in the Bible he would be clapped into jail as a "Communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NETHERLANDS: Little Empire | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

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